It was taken up by many communist movements around the world, some with local variations. At the time of creation, the hammer stood for industrial laborers and the sickle for the peasantry-combined they stood for the worker-peasant alliance for socialism.Īfter World War I (from which Russia withdrew in the year 1917) and the Russian Civil War, the hammer and sickle became more widely used as a symbol for peaceful labor within the Soviet Union and for international proletarian unity.
syerp i molot) is a communist symbol that was adopted during the Russian Revolution. The hammer and sickle (☭) or sickle and hammer (Russian: серп и мо́лот, translit.
